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#Covid19

#PWChat Recap: Communicating Complex, Pandemic-Related Issues With The Public

Oct 04, 2021

The latest installment of the #PWChat series focused on communicating about complex, pandemic-related issues with the public. Below are the highlights from the chat. You can read the full transcr...

Are Traveling Nurses Better Compensated Than Physicians in the COVID-19 Era?

Sep 30, 2021

In a recent article for The Associated Press, “US hospitals hit with nurse staffing crisis amid COVID,” it’s stated that the COVID-19 pandemic has created a nurse staffing crisis that is forcing...

Infographic: Vaccine Progress & Hesitancy

Sep 30, 2021

Up To Us recently partnered with INTRVL, the data science team that discovered the Red Mirage last fall, to determine reasons for vaccine hesitancy and resistance down to a county level. If you're int...

What You Need to Know if You Want to Increase Your Revenue by Becoming a Telehealth Provider

Sep 28, 2021

During the COVID-19 public health emergency, the federal government has encouraged healthcare providers to use telehealth to see patients via virtual appointments. Of course, potential uses of telehea...

How Do US Physician Salaries Compare With Those Abroad?

Sep 27, 2021

In a recent International Compensation Report, earnings for physicians in the US, UK, Germany, France, Spain, Brazil, Mexico, and Italy were compared. The report focused on salary, job satisfaction, d...

Tips for a Successful Virtual Job Interview

Sep 17, 2021

Medical practices and hospitals, like so many other businesses, are now using platforms such as Zoom and Google Meet to screen potential job candidates. With a fourth pandemic wave rising before us, t...

Financial Literacy and Its Role in Maintaining a Physician’s Desired Lifestyle

Sep 16, 2021

With COVID-19’s appearance, healthcare’s financial footing has been losing grip, frequently leading to frightening and harmful outcomes for physicians. A California Medical Association survey foun...

Should Pandemic Practices Remain Permanent in Your Practice?

Sep 16, 2021

The pandemic has forced everyone into a new normal. Medical practices perhaps more than any other business, have had to adjust their practices with an unprecedented regard for safety and due diligence...

Integrating Telehealth into Your Practice

Sep 14, 2021

Before the Covid-19 pandemic, many telehealth providers had already designed systems that could be integrated with leading EHR platforms to allow patient information to pass easily from one interface ...

AMA’s 2022 CPT Code Set: What’s Changed?

Sep 14, 2021

The AMA recently published the 2022 Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) code set. Knowledge of the changes is important to ensure accurate billing of outpatient and office procedures, as medical co...

Covid-19: Nursing Home Cases, Deaths Likely Underreported

Sep 14, 2021

Mismatch between federal and state data early in the pandemic to blame Federal data from the CDC’s National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) understated total Covid-19 cases and deaths in nursi...

Dermatologist Compensation: How Are You Faring?

Sep 13, 2021

It is well known that the COVID-19 pandemic has significantly impacted physician compensation across many specialties, especially as many physicians’ offices temporarily closed and nonurgent care an...

Covid-19: CDC Data Show No Increase in Miscarriage Risk with mRNA Vax

Sep 13, 2021

Findings add to evidence indicating safety of Covid-19 during pregnancy Further analysis of data from the CDC’s v-safe Covid-19 vaccine pregnancy registry team showed no increased risk for firs...

Biden Takes Hardline on Vaccines with Mandate-Driven Plan

Sep 13, 2021

’We have the tools, we just need to finish the job’ As Covid-19 cases and hospitalizations continue to spike, President Joseph R. Biden unveiled a new plan to combat the pandemic that now...

Covid-19: Vaccine Prevents Emergency Department, Urgent Care Need

Sep 10, 2021

Older adults were highly protected, CDC analysis found The real-world efficacy of Covid-19 vaccines for preventing hospitalization and death has been shown in study after study, and now new research ...

#PWChat Recap: The Latest Impacts of Coronavirus Pandemic on Healthcare Professionals

Sep 02, 2021

The latest installment of the #PWChat series centered the latest impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on healthcare professionals. Below are the highlights from the chat. You can read the full transc...

COVID-19 Accelerating Demise of Physician Practices

Sep 01, 2021

Almost 70% of US physicians now work as employees of a hospital, health system, or private corporation, a 12% increase from before the COVID-19 pandemic. This finding from a June 2021 Avalere Health r...

Covid-19: Evictions Possible Culprit in Latest Outbreak Wave

Sep 01, 2021

States that lifted eviction bans earliest had higher hazard, study finds Lifting Covid-19-related eviction moratoriums may have contributed to the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and the rising Covid-...

COVID-19–Related ICU Workforce Shortage Projected to Push Hundreds of US Counties Into Crisis

Aug 31, 2021

By September 15, 2021, 15.5% of US counties are anticipated to experience hospital workforce staffing strains because of COVID-19 hospitalizations, with an estimated 320 counties needing to implement ...

Covid-19: ’Long-Haul’ Symptoms Persist One Year Later in Wuhan Survivors

Aug 31, 2021

Most symptoms resolved, but half still had at least one related to Covid Among some of the first patients hospitalized with Covid-19, about half still had at least one persistent symptom associated w...

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